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Bing has rolled out a new site safety page, a place where searchers can better understand why Bing is indicating that a site may be dangerous to visit, because of malicious JavaScript, drive-by attacks, malware network references, or something else.

Hundreds of thousands of Yahoo users in European countries may have been infected with malware injected into advertising hosted on Yahoo websites. The ads were served in iframes by Yahoo's advertising service, and were hosted on external sites.

The next time you just gotta gawk at your favorite celeb, take caution; McAfee exposed the top celebrity searches that put users at the highest risk of malware attacks. Topping the list is Lily Collins, Avril Lavigne, and Sandra Bullock.

Through a series of videos, Google describes how and why sites are hacked, how to assess what has been changed on your website, and how to fix it. Google also provides tips for preventing your website from being hacked and checking for malware.

Google blocked access to some popular websites yesterday after falsely detecting malware in ads from the isocket ad network, angering its founder and CEO. All issues appear to have been resolved, and it seems it was all a false alarm.

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Google has bought web-based security tool developer VirusTotal. Google will continue to maintain the VirusTotal online malware scanning tool and the VirusTotal team will operate as an independent entity. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The social network said that it has increased its use of automated tools which can detect and remove fraudulent "Likes". Facebook's effort will include the use of updated security components which can better identify suspect behavior.

Google said that since security system Bouncer has been operating, malware levels on the Android Market have gone down. The company noted that over the second half of 2011, malicious downloads had decreased by 40 percent.

A new malware attack is luring victims by using web-based exploits to perform a 'drive-by' malware download under the guise of an electronic money transfer. Attackers make use of Google's goo.gl link-shortening service to hide the attack site.

Yandex announced a partnership with Seznam. Yandex developed a video search service that will be provided on the Czech search engine. Also, Yandex is now alerting website owners of the threat of malware if discovered via Yandex.Webmaster.